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...fact, the issue has become somewhat of a sore spot for Bush the Younger. After he earned high marks from gay groups for including openly gay people on his campaign staff, a group of Christian conservatives says Bush promised them in a September meeting that he would not appoint gays to any federal posts, according to the Dallas Morning News. The Bush campaign isn't talking about what happened during the meeting; the Log Cabin Republicans have asked for a clarification. Bush has so far managed to pull off the enviable political sleight-of-hand of remaining vague enough...
...first permanent dean chosen to lead the Institute--expected to be named in the next year--will have the power to appoint her own council. Yet, according to the merger agreement, this group too must include eight members of the now defunct board of trustees...
...other business, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) Christoph J. Wolff requested that Rudenstine appoint a standing committee oh Higher Degrees in Public Health Sciences--the motion passed...
...Minnesota, our Emperor started out with no clothes at all. He came to us from a branch of the performing arts in which large men who resemble comic-book characters pretend to fight each other, so when he was inaugurated and did not appoint barflies and dope dealers to office but donned a suit and white shirt and horn-rimmed glasses and managed to sound half-smart about a third of the time, his approval ratings turned three sheets to the wind and have stayed that way ever since...
PSLM is also asking the University to appoint an independent monitor of overseas factories. Harvard currently relies on PricewaterhouseCoopers, a poor choice, Beach says, because the international consulting firm also conducts business with the companies--such as Nike--it is supposed to monitor...